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MO'S MAN FOUND

The Sydney Morning Herald claims to have located Maureen Dowd’s long-lost Australian lover—and he turns out not to be Australian at all, but a common Irishman who before meeting Dowd had once visited Australia:

Rowan McCormick, a young Anglo-Irishman, stayed with Pat Stratton and her husband in Wahroonga in the late 1960s.

"His father and my husband were with the same company. His mum was in the WRNS and so was I. His father sent him out here to toughen him up a bit,” Stratton told us.

It worked, obviously.

The young buck later returned to Dublin, she said. He’s now married with two kids and living in Falmouth, England.

That seems to be the trend with Modo’s exes. (The married-with-two-kids bit. Not living in Falmouth, England.)

(Well, let’s not be too hasty; for all I know, Falmouth, England is one big MoDo relationship-recovery support group.)

Posted by Tim B. on 03/02/2006 at 11:45 AM
  1. Glad to hear he’s not paraplegic and in a wheelchair in some Outback nursing home after dating MoDo.......and that he fathered two children suggests she went easy on him in her younger days

    Posted by Voyager on 2006 03 02 at 11:53 AM • permalink

  2. How can the media be doing this dude a favor by associating him with MoDo? 

    OTOH, he is an acknowledged member of the MoDo Survivors Club™.....possibly a founding member.  Someone ought to make a movie.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 03 02 at 12:06 PM • permalink

  3. Foulmouth?

    Fits, it does.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 03 02 at 12:07 PM • permalink

  4. Lonnie Donegan

    Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum
    Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

    Hey! A turbaned Turk who scorns the world
    May strut about with his whiskers curled
    Keep a hundred wives under lock and key
    For nobody else but himself to see
    Yet long must he pray with his Al Koran
    Before he can love like an Irishman
    Long may he pray with his Al Koran
    Before he can love like an Irishman

    Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

    The gay monsieur, a slave no more
    The solemn Don and the shocked Senor
    The Dutch Mynheer, so full of pride
    The Russian, Prussian, Swede beside
    They all may do whatever they can
    But they never, never love like an Irishman
    They all may do whatever they can
    But they never, never love like an Irishman

    Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

    Now the London folks themselves beguile
    And think they please in a capital style
    But let them ask as they cross the street
    Of any young girl that they happen to meet
    And I know she’ll say from behind her fan
    Nobody loves like an Irishman
    I know what she’ll say from behind her fan
    Nobody loves like an Irishman

    He-ey! Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

    (Instrumental Break)

    Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

    So I want you to know just how much I care
    And the rest of my life with you I’d share
    I love your face, your hair, your smile
    It’s just as sure as I come from the Emerald Isle
    It must be clear to your lovely eye
    No boy will love you better than I
    It must be clear to your lovely eye
    No boy will love you better than I

    Posted by burrah on 2006 03 02 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  5. A “common Irishman”, is it? And just phwhat would be the meanin’ of that, sorr? And do yez think the shameless hussy Dowd could have the pickin’ of any Irishman ("common Irishman!” Begorrah!!). Whoy, I’d wager that the lad was no more Irish than Prester John. And Dowd?  The descendant of some by-blow of a swab ship-wrecked from the Armada, most like.

    Posted by paco on 2006 03 02 at 12:25 PM • permalink

  6. No don’t tell me I’ll describe him :

    1. Wears dark glasses
    2. Walks with a stick
    3. Has white Labrador dog
    4. Gay although this developed later
    (wonder when?)
    5. Teaches Mysogeny 101 at the local school

    Am I close?

    Posted by Mike 101 on 2006 03 02 at 01:20 PM • permalink

  7. I feel a bit sorry for her.  She’s obviously very lonely to come all that way after all this time.  I’d say she was depressed, which is one of the few things thats really isn’t funny.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 03 02 at 01:32 PM • permalink

  8. She could have the operation and become her own favourite man

    Posted by Voyager on 2006 03 02 at 01:35 PM • permalink

  9. This is so amusing.  I almost feel sorry for Miss Dowd; I really do.

    Posted by mrpuck on 2006 03 02 at 03:22 PM • permalink

  10. Curse you Tim Blair.  If this guy wanted to meet up with MoDo, don’t you think it would have happened by now?

    I mean to say, sure this man made a mistake.  Some might call it a colossal one, analogous to meeting a special person on Brokeback Mountain.  But his excuse was youth and the depraved foolishness that makes us do what we would never do in the saner moments of adulthood.  He wanted to forget this sordid chapter of his life, to not ever let it touch and taint the life he has cobbled together since that very ignoble time.

    No no, this guy was resting easily, sure in the belief that MoDo would never find him.  She thinks he’s an Australian, hah! he’s Irish.  She thinks he resides in Australia, ho! he lives in England.  In his way of thinking, she’s half a world away from tracking him down.  A cunning man his father raised.

    That has now all changed.  Thanks to you and your nefarious brethen in the MSM.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 02 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  11. I ran the data through Paco’s Patented Woo-O-Meter, and it turns out that MoDo is looking for a straight Oscar Wilde with the physique of Hulk Hogan; second option: a deaf, mute Kurt Russell. There are no known specimens of the first type; the second is only available in a half-blind version , and isn’t interested.

    Posted by paco on 2006 03 02 at 03:27 PM • permalink

  12. 10: Excuse me, Wronwright, old fellow, but shouldn’t there be some parenthetical stage directions in that comment? You know, Mops brow and heaves sigh of relief at being spared suicide mission.

    Posted by paco on 2006 03 02 at 03:31 PM • permalink

  13. (Falmouth, England is one big MoDo relationship-recovery support group.)

    Actually, during the time I lived in Falmouth, any visit by MoDo would probably have led to a good old-fashioned witch burning - the rugged West Country folk of those days didn’t take kindly Mo’s ilk.
    ‘Course, that was back in the days before the general sissification of Great Britain had really gotten started. Sigh!

    Posted by Boss Hog on 2006 03 02 at 04:25 PM • permalink

  14. It turns out men are necessary if you want a root. Sounds like there could be a book in that.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 02 at 05:03 PM • permalink

  15. So, in Ireland, talking to an Irish fellow, surrounded by other Irish people, MoDo thought the gentleman was speaking with an Australian accent?

    Was he unseemly-drunk?  Or do all furrners sound alike to MoDo?

    (My middle son once said to a waitress, “You have an interesting accent, but it isn’t Irish.  Is it Scottish?”

    It was Jamaican.

    But he was seven years old, and he wasn’t planning on moving to Scotland to develop a relationship with her, for crying out loud!)

    Posted by VKI on 2006 03 02 at 05:40 PM • permalink

  16. So much for the Irish and British versions of witness protection.

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 03 02 at 05:53 PM • permalink

  17. Mo once met an “Aussie” in Dublin
    Her hormones inside were bubblin.

    Was it 30 years ago for her fantasy spree?
    “It doesn’t matter, cause they sound the same to me”

    Posted by bc on 2006 03 02 at 06:18 PM • permalink

  18. I can just imagine Modo, Greer and their Ilk wandering around the planet in 30 years time looking, not for lost love, but for the remains of western civilisation.

    Posted by knuckleheadwatch on 2006 03 02 at 06:22 PM • permalink

  19. The guy’s probably been reliving the experience with his mates at the pub for the past 30 years:

    "Do ya remem’er t’at ginger Yankee trallope who I fed de ol’ white puddin’ to?  T’e silly heifer bought de yarn that I was an Aussie.  Dumb as a box full of hammers.  I wonder what she’s doin’ now the poor t’ing.”
    Posted by murph on 2006 03 02 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  20. Young Rowan tried to think through the alcoholic haze of a 12 pint hangover.  The silly activist chick who threw herself at him certainly looked better through the beer goggles.  Now in the cold grey light of dawn things were not quite as they seemed the night before.  She had been awkward and inexperienced, but with a certain eager sluttiness that overcame the deleterious effects of many beers.  To make things worse, since waking up she had been spouting the most ridiculous drivel.  It sounded like when he saw Red Robbo on the telly in front of the Leyland plant.  Ireland was becoming an apocalyptic Ford world?  What the heck?  At any rate, the moment of truth arrived.  “Rowan, tell me about yourself.  Where are you from?” Rowan panicked.  I told her my real name!  Bloody hell!  He tried to think, what was the furthest place he could think of?  “Australia!” he blurted, just before heaving his previous night’s dinner into the kitchen sink…

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 03 02 at 09:03 PM • permalink

  21. would it be at all impolite to suggest that when modo knew she was coming to australia she invented the bronzed aussie lover story so she could flirt with tony jones about it?

    Posted by KK on 2006 03 02 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  22. "Common Irishman” Indeed!

    An’ here’s me thinkin’ that with a good Catholic name like Timothy, you’d be one of our own, ah but I see you’re a Blair, I should have known it. Be the Holy you’re probably one of them black protestant Scotch types, aye away wit’ ye, ya blue nosed orange bastard!

    Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 03 02 at 11:51 PM • permalink

  23. I once met an Australian boy on a tour boat in Halifax Harbor.  Good looking boy, too, strapping fine.  He said, “G’day, my name is Brian and I’ll be your dickhead this afternoon.” Took a few minutes to figure out he actually said “deck hand”.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 03 03 at 12:20 AM • permalink

  24. So Ireland is officially Mo-man’s land?
    Get behind the wire bitch!!!

    Posted by 81Alpha on 2006 03 03 at 12:57 AM • permalink

  25. #23 RebeccaH

    Sounds more like a Kiwi to me.  They have developed a brilliant, vowel shifting patois, so:

    “dEck” becomes “dIck” (and “sEx” becomes “sIx” and “sIx” becomes “sUx")
    “hAnd” becomes “hEnd”

    The old favourite: “fIsh and chIps” becomes “fUsh and chUps”

    Yes, you can have a lot of fun chatting with a Kiwi - and yes, the lingo torture is mutual!

    Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 03 03 at 02:36 AM • permalink

  26. Erm, Wronwright?

    We have unpacked you camping kit out of the time machine. The Barrett .50cals have been returned to the armoury. Ditto the flamethrowers, Schmeisser (how DID you get Reihnard Heydrich’s own Schmeisser?), 9mm pistols and claymores. The glaive, scythian sword, throwing knives, morning star, poniards and assorted other cutlery are out the back of the torture chamber games room. Igor is um, playing with them, using up some spare moonbats we found about the place.

    I have stored the tent, sleeping bag and inflatable rubber objects.

    Igor ate the custard and the pineapple. Dav-o is using the wetsuit - no, trust me, you do NOT want to know.

    There was absolutely no sign of 3,000 litres of mesopotamian Mead, or that keg of quadruple-distilled whiskey from Skye.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Hic

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 03 03 at 04:42 AM • permalink

  27. As egg surmised many MODO threads back ... I doubt that his (likely) wife (& kids) would be keen on a reunion ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2006 03 03 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  28. So in addition to Godwin’s Law the internet now has Dowd’s Law.  The further from MoDo herself the happier the man…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 03 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  29. A “common Irishman”, is it? And just phwhat would be the meanin’ of that, sorr?

    My nation?  What man is it who speaks of my nation?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 03 at 11:11 AM • permalink

  30. Falmouth, England is one big MoDo relationship-recovery support group.

    Let the healing begin.

    When these bozo women decide not to have children, they are “selecting” themselves out of the gene pool.  They don’t have any brats to inculcate with their bizarro ideologies.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 03 03 at 11:50 AM • permalink

  31. #26

    Put.  The mead.  In the stockroom.

    Now.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 03 at 01:16 PM • permalink

  32. Decisions decisions ... hmmm ... I COULD hide in the stockroom and wait for MarkL to act on Wronwright’s order ... nah!  Better to casually schlep on over to the library ... i THINK that’s where MarkL hides all his best stuff.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 03 at 06:36 PM • permalink

  33. From the stockroom...

    “There was a wild colonial boy...”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 03 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  34. Ro McCo no show for MoDo; ToJo dying to “do it”

    Posted by egg_ on 2006 03 03 at 08:36 PM • permalink

  35. #26 how DID you get Reihnard Heydrich’s own Schmeisser?

    Reihnard Heydrich?  Is that who it was? 

    Ever see The Wizard of Oz?  Remember the part when Dorothy’s house falls on the Wicked Witch of the East?  Well I inadvertently landed the Tardis on top of old Reihnard.  Please believe me when I say I’m really sorry about that.

    Still, he wasn’t using those nice leather jack boots anymore.  And that pistol was very nice.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 03 at 09:08 PM • permalink

  36. Wronwright, look, we had 20 minions offload your gear from the time machine.

    OBVIOUSLY, a mere 20 minions cannot drink 3,000 litres of mead. Too much mead, yes?

    But 20 minions can unload your… unusual… very, very unusual..... collection of inflatable “rubber objects”.

    Also obviously, WE TOOK PICTURES OF these “UNUSUAL” RUBBER OBJECTS before and after moving them so that the OWNER, WRONWRIGHT my old friend, might know POST-facto ON balance of probabilities that even in this INTERNET world IF YOU see the images and DON’T appreciate their clarity caused by correct SHUTter speed UP ABOUT small fractions of a second in THE imMEADiately ambient light.

    I hope that this enables you to GET THE MESSAGE.

    Look, I have to stagger run back to join supervise the party work-crew. After all, the minionettes have gotten pissed, horny and naked joined in the orgy umm party daily loyal toil for the VRWC.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 03 03 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  37. MarkL,

    See if you get this message:

    touch the mead, you die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die.

    (btw, the rubber stuff belongs to that Dr. Who looney tune who “helps” “facilitate” traveling, when he decides to show up that is)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 04 at 04:23 AM • permalink

  38. That is miraculous. The Doctor Who looney tune has the same DNA as bears a striking resemblance to you!

    Oh, we found the mead and have returned it to the store.

    Look, I have to go, gotta get Paco to sign this stores requisition for 2,500 litres of Brazilian ethanol and 500 litres of honey, a humungous mixing vat and a bunch of plastic buckets and pouring funnels.

    I think he’ll OK it. The minionettes are gonna deliver it…

    MarkL
    canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2006 03 04 at 06:54 AM • permalink

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